Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.6KTaken for a Ride
Queensland’s extreme VLAD laws revive the memory of Vlad the Impaler Premier Campbell Newman The VLAD* laws in Queensland are extreme and...
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You disgrace the word politics. Politicians aren’t much better.
It is disappointing to see the recent, regular, and ridiculous commentary happening around Tasmania in the lead up to the announcement of...
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Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance
Even though Barry Greenberry resides over 17,000 kilometres away from Tasmania he has managed to speak truth to power from a distance....
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Tell me a story… about free trade
The story started long ago. You could pick a starting point in the 1950s and it’d be fair enough. You could pick...
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Tour Tasmania’s mining legacies from the past and in the making
The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) and the Tasmanian Public and Environmental Health Network (TPEHN) are touring Tasmanian mine sites in February to...
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How Lara Giddings comprehensively failed … and why her demise is certain
When Gunns first entered voluntary administration 15 months ago it seemed as if the secured creditors (the banks) would get most of...
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Indonesia’s Marty Natalegawa says asylum seeker lifeboat plan a ‘slippery slope’
Indonesia’s foreign minister Marty Natalegawa has indicated that Australia could be going further than turning boats back, by potentially facilitating the movement...
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STATE: Call it Now! The Qantas Downgrade
The Tasmanian Greens Leader Nick McKim MP today urged the Premier Lara Giddings to name the 2014 election date, in order to...
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Sue Neill-Fraser: the sentencing, blow by blow
I may be unlearned in law, a lay man, but I don’t think I’m an intellectually lame man. I have been looking...
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7 Days, 8 Friends, 140km. 1 Rainforest
A fashion editor, a paratrooper, a model, an electrician, a permaculturalist, a translator, a youth worker and a soil conservationist. All brought...
